Why God Sent a Son (not a Daughter)

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THE QUESTION: Why did the man Jesus come to earth? Why not a woman: the daughter of God—a female Messiah?

JESUS CAME AS A SON NOT BECAUSE:

Male is better -- Galatians 3:28 contradicts this.

God is only analogically masculine, not sexually masculine. When we pray Our Father, it’s not because God is male – since he isn’t a sexual being. If this intrigues you, please hear the podcast on The Shack.

“Only foolish and low individuals, and persons devoid of perception, and slaves, and women, and children, of whom the teachers of the divine word wish to make converts” -- Celsus in Origen, Contra Celsus, 3.49

"...Augustus confined women to the back rows even at gladiatorial shows: the only ones exempt from this rule being the Vestal Virgins… No women at all were allowed to witness the athletic contests…" -- Suetonius, Twelve Caesars, Augustus 44.

Would be discounted by Judaism:

"... happy is he whose children are males, and woe to him whose children are females." -- Talmud Kiddushim 82b

"But let not the testimony of women be admitted, on account of the levity and boldness of their sex, not let servants be admitted to give testimony on account of the ignobility of their soul, since it is probable that they may not speak truth, either out of hope of gain, or fear of punishment." -- Josephus Antiquities 4.8.15

"Sooner let the words of the Law be burnt than delivered to women." -- Talmud Sotah 19a

"Any evidence which a woman [gives] is not valid, also they are not valid [to offer]. This is equivalent to saying that one who is accounted by the rabbis as a robber is qualified to give the same evidence as a woman." -- Talmud Rosh Hashannah 1.8

Yet some Talmudic passages are more positive towards women, like Niddah 45 and Ketubot 2.6-7.

(Compare to Islamic view: Female legal witness worth half that of a male “because of deficiencies of a woman’s mind.” -- Hadith of Bukhari, 3.826)